Hof ter Saksen

The estate covers twenty-seven hectares and combines cultivated fields, meadow, a wooded section, an arboretum, and a castle park that contains the main house together with ancillary farm buildings. The layout reflects a nineteenth-century reorganisation in which formal buildings and an English-style parkland setting were brought together to serve a country residence and its service functions.

The standing castle dates from the early nineteenth-century rebuilding in a neoclassical or classicist manner, with façades restored between 2004 and 2007 to reflect their nineteenth-century appearance. The rear tower rises to thirty-six metres, a height that matched the nearby Haasdonk church tower, and was provided with clock faces on every side at the request of the owner. After a 1986 storm part of the roof collapsed and the interior survived only in fragmentary form, with stucco fragments remaining; the external walls and façades were stabilised and repaired during the 2004–2007 campaign. The exterior now presents as a nineteenth-century castle shell while the interior awaits comprehensive restoration.

The farm complex, called Ter Hoeve, was erected in 1812 and incorporates stables within its plan. Municipal restoration work completed in 2007 returned the farm to sound use; its inner courtyard has been made accessible and the building now houses storage and operational space for the municipal gardening service. The orangery, also built in 1812 as a winter shelter for exotic plants, was restored in the same programme and has been adapted to serve as a café since 2007.

Beneath the grounds lie brick-built ice cellars closed by wooden doors. Historically these underground chambers stored blocks of ice and kept fish cold; clearance work around 1987 exposed a bat roost and the chambers continue to function as a wintering shelter for bats. The surviving parkland shows the early nineteenth-century decision to replant in the English landscape style and the surrounding embankment, excavated at the time of the rebuilding, remains a defining earthwork feature of the enclosure.